Was There Life Before Chocolate Chip Cookies?

There are some things you just can’t imagine living life without. For some it may be their computer, or indoor plumbing, or their car. But for many of us, it is difficult to imagine life without chocolate chip cookies.

But there was a time before chocolate chip cookies were invented. Yep, I kid you not. And it wasn’t even all that long ago. Mankind existed for centuries without tasting even one smidgen of chocolate chip cookie.

It seems that sometime in the early 1930’s, a lady named Ruth Wakefield was baking regular chocolate cookies. Wakefield was the owner of the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. She didn’t have any baker’s chocolate, so instead she used small pieces of semi-sweet chocolate, thinking that it would all melt and blend in. Well, we know what chocolate chips do in cookie batter – they don’t melt and blend in, they remain as delicious chunks of chocolate.

Being the wise women she was, Wakefield knew she had a winner. A few years later she sold her recipe to Nestle. Her payment? A lifetime supply of chocolate chips.

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